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title: They went out, and when they had got some distance from the lodge he… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: They went out, and when they had got some distance from the lodge he said, “Brother, let us go over to that place where grandmother told us not to go.” Who acts: birds, boy, us, grandmother. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Star Boy,
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 67

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They went out, and when they had got some distance from the lodge he said, “Brother, let us go over to that place where grandmother told us not to go.”

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**Who acts:** birds, boy, us, grandmother · **What happens:** go out, get, say, let, go over, tell · **To what, where:** distance, lodge, Brother, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Star Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds, boy, us, grandmother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66596:9:67
# text = They went out, and when they had got some distance from the lodge he said, “Brother, let us go over to that place where grandmother told us not to go.”
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
22	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	over	over	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	30	advmod	_	_
29	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
31	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	iobj	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | past | birds *= bird* |  |  |  |  |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **get** | past · perfect | birds *= bird* | some distance |  | the lodge |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent distance=Theme from lodge=Source |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | boy | Brother |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lodge=Topic |
| 4 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | birds *= bird* *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go over** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to that place; over *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | grandmother |  | us |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 7 | **not** **go** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | grandmother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Project Gutenberg book 66596 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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